Commercial Development of Regional Ports as Logistics Centres

Download or read book Commercial Development of Regional Ports as Logistics Centres written by United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As trade-barriers are removed and logistics services requirements and costs increase, multi-national companies are searching for industrial and logistics centres where repackaging, labeling, bar-coding, light assembly and other value-added services can be provided. The ESCAP countries have been developing healthy economic ties not only on a regional basis but also with those of other regions, mainly through maritime transport. The majority of them have potential to establish ports that would be viable logistics centres however the sector has been inefficiently managed, over regulated and constrained. Recently there have been many attempts in ESCAP ports to shift their emphasis to value-added logistics services in order to remain competitive. The main purpose of this study is to develop strategies and guidelines that would help ports in this transition of emphasis.